1. Required Content of Fortran 2000

Following extensive work in subgroups, and votes in full Plenary (both
individual and, where appropriate, by country) WG5 has determined that
Fortran 2000 shall contain the following items:

Allocatable components

Asynchronous I/O

Constructors/destructors

Derived type I/O

Floating point exception handling

Inheritance

Internationalization

Interoperability with C

Interval arithmetic

Parameterized derived types

Polymorphism

Procedure pointers

It is the intention of WG5 that the revised standard shall be published no later than
November 2002.

2. Possible Additional Minor Technical Enhancements

WG5 has also authorised J3 to work on the following minor technical
enhancements for incorporation in Fortran 2000, subject to the proviso
that any work carried out on them does not adversely affect any of the
work required to address the major items listed above:

WG5 will review this list at every meeting in the light of information provided by
J3 regarding the progress on the major items for Fortran 2000, and may reduce it if it
feels that this will be necessary in order to meet the publication schedule.